Category: algorithm

Mayo Clinic, Google develop AI algorithm to enhance electrical brain stimulation

AI, algorithm, Artificial Intelligence, brain disease, Daily, electrical brain stimulation, epilepsy, google, Health IT, hospitals, Mayo Clinic, News, Parkinson’s Disease, SYN, Top Story / September 8, 2021 September 8, 2021

The algorithm maps interactions between different areas of the brain, which can help guide the placement of electrodes for stimulating devices to treat brain diseases, like epilepsy, and movement disorders.

Software to calculate the right dose of medicine for heart failure patients gets breakthrough device designation

algorithm, Biofourmis, Boston, Daily, Health Tech, heart failure, Startups, SYN, Top Story / August 3, 2021 August 3, 2021

Biofourmis, a Boston-based digital health startup, recently received breakthrough designation for its digital therapeutic to help ensure heart failure patients receive medications that are consistent with clinical evidence at the right dose.

AI system detects Covid-19 in lungs faster than radiologists, study finds

AI, algorithm, Artificial Intelligence, chest, COVID-19, Daily, Health IT, images, News, northwestern university, Physicians, radiologists, SYN, Top Story, X-ray / December 2, 2020 December 2, 2020

Northwestern University researchers developed an AI system that analyzes patients’ chest X-rays to identify Covid-19. A study shows it can classify the images faster and with slightly higher accuracy than radiologists.

Algorithm that predicts Covid-19 complications gets EUA

AI, algorithm, COVID-19, Daily, Dascena, FDA, Health IT, Health Tech, Machine Learning, SYN, Top Story / October 7, 2020 October 7, 2020

The FDA granted an emergency use authorization to an algorithm developed by Dascena to predict which Covid-19 patients might face unstable blood pressure or respiratory decline.